These Days

I was walking around, just a face in the crowdTrying to keep myself out of the rainSaw a vagabond king wear a styrofoam crownWondered if I might end up the sameThere's a man out on the corner, singing old songs about changeEverybody got their cross to bare, these days

She came looking for some shelter with a suitcase full of dreamsTo a motel room on the boulevardI guess she's trying to be James DeanShe's seen all the disciples and all the wanna beNo one wants to be themselves these daysStill there's nothing to hold on to but these days

These days - the stars seem out of reachThese days - there ain't a ladder on these streetsThese days - are fast, nothing last in this graceless ageThere ain't nobody left but us these days

Jimmy shoes busted both his legs, trying to learn to flyFrom a second story window, he just jumped and closed his eyesHis mamma said he was crazyHe said, "Mamma, I've got to try"Don't you know that all my heroes diedAnd I guess I'd rather die than fade away

These days the stars seem out of reachBut these days, there ain't a ladder on the streetsThese days are fast, nothing last in this graceless ageEven innocence has caught the midnight trainAnd there ain't nobody left but us these days

I know Rome's still burningThough the times have changedThis world keeps turning round and round and round and roundThese days

These days the stars seem out of reachBut these days there ain't a ladder on the streetsThese days are fast, nothing last in this graceless ageEven innocence has caught the midnight train

These days the stars seem out of reachBut these days there ain't a ladder on the streetsThese days are fast, nothing lastThere ain't no time to wasteThere ain't nobody left to take the blameThere ain't nobody left but us these daysAin't nobody left but us these days